Pages

October 31, 2017

Hello and Happy Tuesday! Well it's back to grind around here, yesterday I returned to my full-time "real" job after being away for a week. So, it's time to knuckle down and get back to business I guess. Lucky hubby has another day after today before he heads back then it will really be back to normal around here. But, I did squeeze in some crafting time over the weekend and today I want to share with you a card I made using my new Stampin' Blends.

Yes, these new alcohol markers are UH-MAZING! I am totally in love with them and the good news is, they are available to customers beginning tomorrow, November 1st!

And I am starting a Stampin' Blends Club to make it easier for you to get your hands on them, because YOU MUST get your hands on them!

This is a 5 month club and pricing includes shipping directly to you, so, if you are a local customer and would like to pass on the shipping, just let me know and we can arrange for pick up/delivery and subtract $7.20 for the flat rate shipping cost from the total. Below is the flyer explaining the details. I truly hope you will join me in the club because I know you will love them just as much as I do!

If you would like to know all of my specials and all of the great things happening, be sure to subscribe to my mailing list! Click Here to subscribe
Happy Stamping,
Katrina

October 26, 2017

Hello and Happy Thursday! I hope you're all enjoying this beautiful Fall day. Today I want to share with you another project I have been working on for my up coming craft fairs. If you're anything like me, you want cute items to share but you need them to be quick and easy to reproduce, especially if you want to have enough to display on your craft tables. So, this project is perfect for you.
I picked these candles up at my local Hobby Lobby as they were 50% off....can we say, "winning"! Yes, I was VERY excited when I learned they were on sale...that made it the perfect sale item for me. So, I grabbed a bunch of them and headed for my craft room.
I pulled out my white tissue paper and began to stamp some different designs. Very important tip, look at your tissue paper and make note of the shiny side verses the flat paper side, you want to do all of your stamping on the flat paper side (the shiny side will pool the ink and it won't really dry causing smearing and messes)
Finally, trim around your stamped image to remove any excess tissue paper. Lay it over your candle in the exact location you want your image to appear. Then take a piece of wax paper and wrap around the image and the candle, and taking care to keep your fingers away from the heat, using your heat tool, melt the image into the candle. Once, cooled, gently peel back the wax paper to reveal you beautiful image.

In this example I used the Merry Patterns stamp set. This is only available until the 31st of this month to anyone that either spends $300 or hosts a party totaling $300. And it's so totally worth it. This stamp set is just beautiful.

In this second example, I used the Musical Season stamp set. This happens to be one of my most favorite sets in the holiday catalog. I just adore the little drummer boy...maybe because Little Drummer Boy happens to be one of my favorite Christmas Carols of all time?

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed today's project and are inspired to try candle stamping for yourself. Again, it's quick, it's easy and it's a great way to dress up a plain white or cream colored candle.

If you would like to know all of my specials and all of the great things happening, be sure to subscribe to my mailing list! Click Here to subscribe

October 24, 2017

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! It's a bit of a rainy morning here in Central NY, making it a bit dark this morning, but it sure does make the coffee taste extra good this morning. I have plans to go shopping with a friend later this morning and it's supposed to clear off so that will be good...who wants wet packages? Not me anyway. But, if it doesn't clear off, it won't stop us lol.

Anyway, I'm sure you have heard that Stampin' Up! is introducing new alcohol markers and they will be available to customers November 1st!Well, they gave us demonstrators an opportunity to order them first so that we could play with them and get familiar with them so we would be able to assist you, our customers, so of course I ordered a complete set. OH- EM-GEE! I am in LOVE, that is L. O. V. E., LOVE with these markers! They blend like a dream, there is NO guessing what colors blend together to achieve amazing looks. They are just perfect. One end is a "fine point' nib and the other is a "brush tip" nib so you can get into tight spaces and achieve that "flicking" motion for hair and other "wispy" looks.

I used these amazing markers in today's card project. This project is very simple but still shows the amazing shading and blending you can achieve with these Blends.

I love this stamp set and this little deer is absolutely adorable. And I especially love that these can be tags but just as easily make cards! To color this little guy, I used the Pink Pirouette pair for his inner ears, Crumb Cake for his body, Smokey Slate for his hooves and nose, Cherry Cobbler for his bow and Daffodil Delight for his bell. For his antlers, I used only the light Crumb Cake and then went over it with the Color Lifter to lighten them just a little more. And to finish him off and make him that much more festive, I added Clear Wink of Stella to his tail, spots and bell.

I hope you enjoyed today's card. Please feel free to leave a comment, I would love to read your thoughts.

If you would like to know all of my specials and all of the great things happening, be sure to subscribe to my mailing list! Click Here to subscribe

October 20, 2017

TGIF! I know I have been among the missing these past several days, but once again, the day job strikes again with insane scheduling and extreme busyness. Needless to say, there has been NO visits to the craft room this week...no crafting, makes for a sad me. On a positive note, after today, I will be on a staycation and that means LOTS of crafty time.

Anyway, enough about my whining, I want to share cute project that I made to take to the craft fair I attended as a vendor last weekend. Now, this is NOT my original design. I can in no way take credit for this, but thought it was just too cute and fit in perfectly with the Teal Pumpkin Project. Haven't heard of it? Well let me tell you about it. You place a teal colored pumpkin outside your door so that parents with children that have food allergies know that you are offering alternatives to food/candy for your tricks or treats and can feel comfortable coming to your door. If you would like to learn more about this great idea, just click The Teal Pumpkin Project to find out more.

Again, this is NOT my idea but did fall in love with it. I'm pretty sure the original idea came from Erica Cerwin from Pink Buckaroo Creations, just don't swear me to it? I picked up a package of toothbrushes from my local Dollar Tree and packaged them individually in our 2" x 8" cello bags and "sealed" them with a 2" x 4" piece of Real Red cardstock scored and folded at 2" and stapled closed. I then stamped the image from the Creep it Real stamp set onto Whisper White cardstock and fussy cut them out after I colored them in with my Blender Pens and Real Red ink. Punched a couple of holes at the top of the lip, used some retired ribbon I had and tied on a pair of "fangs" I picked up at Dollar Tree. Again, a very quick and simple project that can be given out without fear of introducing an allergen to a child with food allergies.

I hope this inspires you to try something different for your trick or treators this season. Until next time, have a great day.

If you would like to know all of my specials and all of the great things happening, be sure to subscribe to my mailing list! Click Here to subscribe

October 12, 2017

Good Morning and Happy Thursday! I hope you're enjoying your week? It's been a busy one around here, prepping for a couple of classes and a craft fair/vendor event has had me hopping, not to mention my full time job. Lucky for me, I LOVE what I do!
Today, I want to share a cute project I made for my up coming vendor event using one of my favorite product suites from the Annual Catalog, Coffee Cafe. It's so easy to overlook these gems this time of years since we get wrapped up into the awesomeness of the Holiday Catalog. But this suite of product is just to amazing to ignore; so I came up with this idea after finding these nice little coffee treats in my local Walmart.

If you would like to reproduce this project, you will need the items listed below and for a free tutorial on how I made this treat box, be sure to sign up for my newsletter before Friday to have it delivered directly to your inbox

If you would like to know all of my specials and all of the great things happening, be sure to subscribe to my mailing list! Click Here to subscribe

Follow by Email

Shop These Great Products

Privacy Policy

01
09
10
Code line 7 9 is for loading jQuery library. Remove this line if you’ve already loaded it somewhere else in your blog. Hint: If your blog has an image slider, carousel or something with fading effect running, chances are it is powered by jQuery. If this widget doesn’t work, the first thing you want to do is comment out or remove this line.
To use your own button, replace the URL in line 3 with the direct link URL to the image. Make sure to keep the quotes.
To reposition the button, replace